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Episode 99: Will Artificial Turf Change Golf? In Conversation with Paul Jansen
December 15, 2025·1 hr 12 min·1 clip
A NASA scientist turned golf pro created turf so realistic that Phil Mickelson and Patrick Reed chose to practice on it in their own backyards.
As heard by us
A thoughtful clubhouse-style chat that uses artificial turf to open into a wider golf argument.
Paul Jansen turns a question about artificial turf into a wider argument about what golf is, and why amateur golf still matters. He sounds like someone who has spent years designing and building golf spaces, especially smaller ones, and that gives the conversation a calm,…
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Press play if you want a straight-talking golf-architecture chat that puts amateur golf and turf-based spaces at the center.
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